3rd NINE WEEKS
ELA
Our class will be working on the following 1st grade standards:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Magnetic Reading Foundations
I am excited to share with you that our classroom will be using Magnetic Reading Foundations as our foundational skills curriculum. Magnetic Reading Foundations is a supplementary reading program that was created to help your student develop the building blocks for success in reading. The instruction in Magnetic Reading Foundations reflects a research-based approach on how literacy skills develop and a commitment to engaging students and inspiring in them a love of reading.
Each week’s instruction will include:
• Phonological Awareness, to help your student hear and play with the sounds that make up words—a critical step in learning to read.
• Phonics skills to connect sounds to letters. Connecting sounds to the letters that stand for them is at the heart of learning to read.
• Spelling practice with words that include each new skill they are learning.
• High-Frequency Words, so that your student can read, spell, write, and use some of the most frequently used words in the English language. In class, we will call these words Super Words.
• Fluency, so your student can read accurately. Fluency skills help readers understand what they read.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our class will be working on the following 1st grade standards:
Understand how culture, values, and beliefs shape people, places, and environments.
Identify cultural practices and traditions in local communities and places around the world.
Summarize ways that culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people help shape a community.
Explain how the artistic expressions of diverse people and cultures contribute to communities around the world.
Explain how culture, values, and beliefs influence how disagreements are resolved in classrooms,
Helpful Links
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sight+words+jack+hartmann
https://www.splashlearn.com/student#/
https://www.esparklearning.com/
https://jr.brainpop.com/